The BitMapPlus plugin you use to tile bitmaps - usually for some floor or pavement. Here it is used to tile a bitmap for the terrain of a hill. And to tile another bitmap for the stem and branches of a tree.

The TreeZ plugin you use to create trees - the stem and the branches. Then you can make a hair material to get some leaves in the tree.

You will learn the Basics so you can start experimenting yourself with trees and terrain.


The plugins BitMapPlus and TreeZ you can find here:

BitMapPlus.atx
you will find here:
http://www.hash.com/forums/index.php?showt...indpost&p=92973

TreeZ.hxt
you will find here for A:M 11.0
http://www.hash.com/forums/index.php?showt...indpost&p=25785


and here for A:M 11.5:
http://www.hash.com/forums/index.php?showt...indpost&p=25893

And here you can find some Texture maps to use:

Image After - http://www.imageafter.com/
Mayangs - http://www.mayang.com/textures/
forrest.cz - http://textures.forrest.cz/
Animax - http://www.animax.it/animax/frame1.html
Accueil - http://perso.club-internet.fr/lemog/#
David Gurrea - http://www.davegh.com/blade/davegh.htm
Blue Sky Digital - http://www.blueskydigital.com/gallery/matls.htm

And here a screen capture from the tutorial.

Thank you for the tutorial (I relly need help understanding Bitmap +), and thank you for the amazing links to the texture sites!

Drvarceto

Look here:
http://www.hash.com/amtutes/

NOTHING TO SEE YET!!!!

But thanks to me they - the programmers on Hash and their boss(es) - have understood that the users of A:M
do not understand the possibilities in the program!

I think Dr. Martin better thanks me
than treating me bad!

I really like the idea of Dr Martin - making animation on the kitchen table and A:M also being an professional program. But somewhere it is turning out wrong.
A:M Forums is for the users but in the same time for the Hashers. Here is a gap opening. The users want to critisize the product - the company do not want to have any critic. I believe better this Forum stay outside the firm - being a users Forum only.


So what they not will undersandd is that
there have to be a free discussion - artistic freedom
perhaps that is coming some day - too?

And that the moderators have to defend freedom of speach
or the A:M community will be just a relaxing place for some amateurs/hobbyists.
Well there is more to say in this issue - but perhaps better not saying more
due to my bad experiences on the Forum.

But if the Hashers cannot stand a little bit critic how will they ever learn?

I don't know what adding a tutorial section has to do with how they run their forum. There has long been a tutorial web site for AM....the ARM. But it is exciting when it feels like Hash are listening.....a bit more decorum and modesty is preferable though.

Artistic freedom is encouraged as long as it involves the software that is the focus of this forum....which is owned and moderated by Hash.....which means they want to keep it an efficient place to learn their program on.